Sleep Lab Technician

Location

Mobile, AL | United States

Job description

Come join our team of professionals that are committed to delivering the best patient care! If you would like to be part of a growing family-focused on supporting clinical excellence, teamwork, and innovation, we urge you to apply now!

Springhill Medical Center is a full service hospital serving southwest Alabama. Our surgical services include outpatient, inpatient, open-heart and robotic surgery. The hospital is equipped with the latest diagnostic equipment, meaning doctors have advanced technology to help them quickly determine a patient's health problem. Springhill's unique heart center offers state-of-the-art services all under one roof. The campus is also home to primary care physicians, a senior residence, sleep center, cancer center, orthopaedic surgery center, wound care & hyperbaric center, and an emergency department staffed by all board-certified emergency medicine physicians.

The Sleep Lab Technician position is being established to train an individual to be a Sleep Technologist with the goal of becoming a Registered Polysomnographic Technologist (RPsgT). The Technician will work under the supervision of the sleep lab’s Registered Technicians. He/she will also be required to take the A-Step Modules provided by the American Academy of Sleep Medicine (AASM). Following the completion of the A-Step modules and 18 months of clinical experience in the sleep lab, the Technician will be eligible to take the RPsgT exam to become a Registered Sleep Technologist.

Salary commensurate with experience

Pre-Employment Requirements:

• We are a drug free facility. Passing a pre-employment drug screening is required .

Requirements:

• Validation of a High School Diploma is required.
• Prior Sleep Lab or employment in medical field desirable but not required.
• Must have CPR certification.

Required Skills, Knowledge, and Abilities: 

• Demonstrated computer skills
• Demonstrated critical thinking, ability to analyze complex situations
• Ability to initiate appropriate therapeutic interventions according to protocol
• Ability to troubleshoot laboratory equipment
• Ability to maintain accurate records
• Analytical and organizational skills
• Ability to work as a member of a team
• Good to excellent verbal and communication skills
• Ability to demonstrate adherence to cleaning and disinfection procedures

Job Responsibilities (all under the supervision of the center’s RPsgts):

• Perform nighttime and daytime sleep studies including NPSG, CPAP titration, MSLT and MWT as specified in Sleep Lab protocols.
• Perform appropriate physiological calibrations to ensure proper signals and make appropriate adjustments.
• Perform data acquisition while monitoring studies to ensure signals are free of artifact and to document, identify and correct any such artifacts.
  
• Document routine observations during sleep studies including changes in procedure, clinical events sleep stages and other events in order to facilitate scoring and interpretation of sleep studies.
  
• Perform operational checks prior to initiating sleep studies to ensure all equipment is working safely and adequately.
  
• Attach all electrodes and transduces to patients prior to sleep studies.
  
• Score sleep/wake stages and sleep-related events (respiratory events, cardiac events, limb movements, arousals, etc.) using AASM standards. Present all scoring to Clinical Director the morning after the sleep study for review.
  
• Implement appropriate interventions such as O2 therapy or PAP therapy according to Laboratory Policy and Procedures.
  
• Perform positive airway pressure interface fitting and education.
  
• Clean all non-disposable electrodes and transducers after sleep studies are performed.
  
• Comply with all applicable laws, regulations, guidelines and standards related to safety and infection control issues.
  
• Recognize and respond to cardiac emergencies during sleep studies

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